The Troy King/Bob Riley uncomfortable weirdness over Bingo and electronic gambling continues. Earlier last week, King posed the question, "Is the governor also the attorney general or is he just the governor?"

For this cartoon, I thought it would be funny to let Troy seek deeper meaning to his snippy question using the ol' wise man-on-the-mountaintop trick. Of course, the big guy on top in this scenario is Governor Bob Riley, both figuratively and realistically. Riley may technically be a lame duck, but in Alabama he's still a pretty heavy bird.

Of course, it's all really just an excuse to draw Troy King in Daisy Dukes...and that wonderful blow-up pig that Loretta Nall sent to the attorney general a couple years ago. That pig just keeps on giving and giving. It's a beautiful thing.

I started drawing this cartoon last Wednesday. Mark Sanford's train wreck of an apology stopped all other ink from flowing, so I took the Appalachian Trail detour through Argentina. Thursday, I was finishing the Troy Boy drawing and was almost ready to file it when Michael Jackson's death washed all other news off the table, including Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and the Iran protests. Had there been a nuclear emergency it probably woulda been swept away by the MJ tsunami.

(Sanford was probably the most grateful for MJ's untimely demise. But what if the South Carolina governor held that sorry apology presser Thursday afternoon? His wife may not have even heard about it.)

Speaking of the Appalachian Trail, Press-Register columnist Dave Helms has his own confessions from the hiking trail in today's Sunday Insight.